The use of WMC distribution for performance evaluation of APD optical communication systems

Author

Tang, Jimmy T K ; Letaief, Khaled Ben

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Hong Kong

Volume

46

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

285

Abstract

In the analysis of the bit-error rate (BER) of an optical communication system with avalanche photodiode (APD) detectors, the Webb, McIntyre, Conradi (1974) distribution has been often used to approximate the APD receiver output statistics. This paper presents new simple and closed form BER expressions as well as an importance sampling technique for optical systems employing APD receivers when the WMC model is used. Comparison of the WMC model with the exact model is also carried out. In particular, it is shown that the WMC distribution is quite accurate and has the advantage of simplicity for both simulation and analysis

Keywords

avalanche photodiodes; coding errors; error statistics; optical receivers; optical signal detection; photodetectors; signal sampling; APD optical communication systems; APD receiver output statistics; WMC distribution; avalanche photodiode detectors; bit-error rate; closed form BER expressions; exact model; importance sampling technique; performance evaluation; simulation; Associate members; Avalanche photodiodes; Bit error rate; Computational modeling; Electrons; Monte Carlo methods; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Random variables; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.659486

Filename

659486